NOLAN (OM, AC)

SONNET 149 (Shakespeare's Sonnets), 1967

61.5 x 49 cm

Ripolin on paper, Signed lower right, Signed, Dated (5th July 1967) & Inscribed (Shakespeares Sonnets, Sonnet 149) verso
SOLD

Provenance: Macquarie Galleries; Sydney, Private Collection, Sydney

Exhibited: Macquarie Galleries, Sidney Nolan, September 1967 (A copy of the original catalogue is available with the work)

Sonnet 149:  Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not, When I against myself with thee partake?  Do I not think on thee when I forgot Am of myself, all tyrant for thy sake?  Who hateth thee that I do call my friend?  On whom frown'st thou that I do fawn upon?  Nay, if thou lour'st on me, do I not spend Revenge upon myself with present moan?  What merit do I in myself respect that is so proud thy service to despise, When all my best doth worship thy defect, Commanded by the motion of thine eyes?  But, love, hate on; for now I know thy mind: Those that can see thou lov'st, and I am blind.

A photo of the rear of the painting is attached in a file to the bottom of the artist bio.